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[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeSchmo2840:
If TWRP actually works after that permissive kernel is installed, we can finally get a stock nandroid backup. That would take the fear away from testing that custom cyanogen build.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] princewilson0410:
I ended up making a nandroid backup of this phone and the only thing I couldn't make a backup of was the boot and recovery for it.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
You can find out all the partitions you need to use dd with to start a backup by doing

If I had the resources for a computer I would have uploaded a copy of my stock image, I'll see what I can do about getting one up. Also saw this tool that I thought may be useful for getting a flashable image.

tool-mmcblk0-extractor

Anyways, until next time x.x
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Just wanted to post this and see if anyone has theirs different.

Also if someone could decompile the boot.img (I have a link to mine I can send) I'll work on a passive kernel for us.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oleksandr.lutsyk:
допоможіть! потрібна прошивка для мого sm-s978l 4g

Took and wiped the system and data. now loaded only Samsung logo and TWRP 3.0.2

Or maybe someone has a backup of SM-S978L 4G?
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
What do you need a backup of? I haven't uploaded data or system partitions yet but I have the rest.

Also, you successfully got TWRP 3.0.2 working? If so please share the details on how please (:

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[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oleksandr.lutsyk:
Help! Need firmware for my SM-S978L [5.0.2] Straight Talk's E5

Took and wiped the system and data. now loaded only Samsung logo and tvrp

Or maybe someone has a backup of SM-S978L [5.0.2] Straight Talk's E5?

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I need backup or firmware....

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androiding. how/how-to-install-twrp-recovery-using-odin/

If you do this it will be possible. Make a backup for me)
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
updated main post, will try uploading backup by tonight
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El_Ogan:
zenful backup request

Hello, I currently have the twrp running but for some reason google play services has stopped working has blocked me our of many of my apps and functions on the phone. The only backup I have at all has this occurring may I please use your backup and partitions so I can have a working phone for the upcoming holiday.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Hey [MENTION=7924095]El_Ogan[/MENTION] check your inbox, or the first post to this thread for the link. Hope it helps, happy holidays (:
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bullfrog83:
??/

i have this phone and twrp works but nothing eles is this a complet back up i can just restore from twrp or is there something eles i am in need of to get this phoe working its a sm-s978l but shows e500h when i plug it in to my computer ??? so i am really confused
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Hey no worries and yes it's just a full backup from TWRP just stupid in the sdcard and navigate to TWRP's restore section and it should auto find it. Any other files needed I'll also have, but this a bit a flashable zip or flashable via Odin, and

I imagine Odin says that after you flashed TWRP right? If so that's because that's what the TWRP was made for so it seems like Odin checked the recovery.

If it said that BEFORE you flashed it, that's very intriguing and helpful to me (:
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bullfrog83:
thank you very much i really like this phone maybe ill be able to use it again havent went back to odin since i put twrp on the phone but when i plug into my computer it says e500h in window on my computer when in twrp on the phone used to say sm-s978l so im not sure just the way it is introduced by windows
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
I feel ya just let me know if you need any more help and goodluck
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bullfrog83:
twrp fails to flash the files and doesnt even show them when i go to restore think i may be doing something wrong or might have to completly reflash with odin are restration files avalible like for the other models of this phone ??? i down loaded and placed on sdcard both as zip and as just files it is shown under install zip but not under restoer when i try to install says missing meta data or somethig like that in red
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Do NOT zip the files, just download them as they are and put them in their own folder, do NOT go to "install from zip" just choose Backup/Restore and choose Restore, choose the folder that contains the /system backup and viola, you're done.

I don't have a computer right now so I can't help you make a flashable zip or file for Odin, this is for TWRP's restore feature only.

This backup has worked for others, good luck.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bullfrog83:
followed directions excaly but files are not shown at all when i go to restore just blank no files or folders are shown and these files are the only thing on this sd card they are there under file manager but fail to show in restore thank you for the help but im bout ready to throw this phone in the lake
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Updated main post with information that helped solve the problem for bullfrog83
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Updated post with new backups and better formatting and helpful information.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilbak:
followed step 2

so i did everything enlisted and have some how lost my keyboard function on that phone its not a big problem atm because i have a different phone but do kind of need this phone working so how might i go about getting a keyboard on there seeing that i cant log in to google play without a key board and dont really know of another way to get it on there seeing that besides downloading a apk file and installing but i dont have a file explorer to navigate to a folder of choice and start that install.

any ideas would be helpful i will test them out and let you know how it went thanks

sincerely, wlbak

or if anyone has a twrp backup of the original system and boot files that would be helpfull aswell
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenful:
Either use a different backup or sideload an app from TWRP or ADB, problem solved. I would fix this but this phone's screen for me broke, sorry and good luck.
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brnda91:
hi

galaxy e5 SM-S978L

here baby :o :3

need odin, drivers and download firmware here

firmware.gem-flash.com/index.php?a=browse&b=category&id=8395
[Galaxy E5, E7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonecapone:
I am working on this handset now to sell. So im taking it there was no development done on this tracfone variant? Just the other E5 models it looks like.
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arthur King:
Hello, i want to know if anyone can help me, im trying to do a own rom with the new MM Stock build, it boots and all but wifi dont works, like i dont have any mac addres and it cant turn on or detect any wifi, if someone can help me will be awesome. I think the problem its in the "updater-script" or update-binary" i picked those files from a rom that i make for LP, and i think thats why wifi its not working.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsai83:
I picked up a Sprint prepaid HTC 816 recently and decided to flash this rom below

[ROM][UNOFFICIAL][CM12.1][5.1.1][VirginMobileUS][A5][single sim][1/1/2016 security]

That one :P

It installed great, had everything everything working after I added my Sprint APN settings. The phone still displayed it as Virgin Mobile and only 3g seemed to be working. But I was making and receiving calls, text messages and had mobile data.

Fast forward a couple of hours, I installed a custom theme from the Play store, rebooted and ever since then I lost the ability to pickup a network signal and access my APN settings.

If I re-seat the sim and toggle airplane mode it will pickup a network signal and I can regain apn setting access again but it drops within minutes.

Ive reflashed the rom, wiped everything reflashed again, same thing. Any ideas on what has happened?

Thanks and appreciate your time!
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoctor:
Are these the APN codes you used(poster corrected a mistake in green text)? Looks like there is a different APN for prepaid /postpaid.

http://androidforums.com/threads/working-sprint-prepaid-apn-settings.920752/
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsai83:
I indeed use the apn settings in the green from that post. They were working fine until I had a reboot. Then everything went to ****. It wont even let me access the apn settings and when I can its briefly and then I lose signal and apn access.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoctor:
I had an issue with something on my Virgin mobile 816 a5_chl a while back and a member [MENTION=1107645]wxppro[/MENTION] was very knowledgeable about APN settings and their intricacies. He had a MVNO 816 at the time with an APN issue and I bet he could help you with this as that was my best suggestion for a fix and it didn't help you.

See if you can direct him here to this forum so that if he can help out the info is here to help others as well. Good luck.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wxppro:
Not sure how much I can help. APN is a tricky business. If your APN settings disappear after some time, it is generally because the cellular network the phone connects to does not match the APN's MCC/MNC numbers. Or it could be the phone is in 3G mode (CDMA EvDo mode).

You can try these things:

Switch network types, from LTE to 3G, wait a minute, and then back to LTE. APNs do not show up in 3G mode. They only show up in LTE (or global) mode.

When you have the APNs show up, check the parameters are correct, you can do a "Restore to default" and then add the new one following that post.

Hope this helps.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techdude154:
I'm having a similar issue as well (except on virgin mobile)

A month ago I flashed squid's version of CM 13 on my phone and everything was fine for a few days, until I completely lost LTE and access to APNs. I reverted to stock and still was unable to get LTE, although I could get a shaky 3g connection if I changed the network mode to CDMA only. I called virgin mobile and they walked me through the troubleshooting steps and eventually determined it was a network outage (even though two desires in my house belonging to other family members had LTE). I called again after they verified that the network was working again and they were still unable to fix the issue.

Recently, a friend upgraded from a desire to a different phone on a different network, and gave me his old phone. I plugged in my sim card and activated this new phone and I got LTE. Figuring everything was good, I decided to flash squid's ROM once again. The same issue happened, I got LTE for a day or two until it cut out service again. No access to APNs, not even any service in stock or on the official build of CM12 with the APN fix (I can't access APNs there either). I'm out of ideas and would appreciate if anyone had any input on my issues.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoctor:
I have this same phone a5_chl Virgin Mobile. Did you factory reset your device before flashing back to your stock rom? The other thing is and this is just my opinion not a statement of fact or a knock on the wonderful Bigsupersquid but that 13 CM ROM is nowhere close to being stable enough for me to risk flashing it to my daily driver phone. Just read all the posts and his candid responses. You were basically a beta tester .

I'm not an expert in APN's but if you can't get that fixed your last resort might have to be wiping your system and then flashing or running the executable RUU (rom utility upgrade) file found for our device on HTC/downloads . This is a last resort option and wiping your system will remove your existing firmware so have the correct RUU for your phone downloaded to your computer before attempting a wipe. If it's an exe, which I believe the U.S. Virgin Mobile one is ,you will hook up your phone fully charged in fastboot mode then from your computer run the exe RUU like any other exe executable program and wait. It will reformat all partitions and reinstall pure stock ROM. Hope someone else had an easier fix for your data issues and good luck.

EDIT: you will need your stock recovery flashed back and a relocked bootloader before flashing the RUU but I've read that some have flashed their RUU over a custom recovery with a locked bootloader and it wrote over the custom recovery with the stock recovery. I have never personally tried this just the first way I mentioned and that worked for me.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techdude154:
I did try factory resetting and I am on stock after flashing the RUU. It makes no sense as the RUU should have reset everything. That perplexes me the most
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoctor:
OK then you did get back to stock not from a nandroid backup but from flashing or running exe stock RUU? If that's the case then it replaced everything that might have been changed and your issues shouldn't be related to any APN changes. You also removed and reinserted your sim card as I believe, correct?

EDIT: that perplexes me as well my friend!
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigsupersquid:
i posted about my lte issues i had for nearly two weeks, running stock just to verify the data service problem wasn't my rom...

i had to install stock recovery, relock bootloader, download the ruu.exe from htc and extract the .img file in Wine, then rename it onto the sdcard and reboot into hboot so it'd flash. neither Wine nor virtualbox xp talk correctly to any of my phones over usb. and i wasn't about to native install Windoze.

factory reset stock didn't fix it, even trying activation, update profile, etc.

i learned i could get 3g data but switching to lte instead of cdma shut down data entirely.

virgin eventually directly escalated me to tier 2 tech support in my last call, they sent a couple service programming pushes to the phone that got my lte back online.

i tried the various service programming menu options repeatedly, with no results but the prl updated once; but the trigger to fix my lte seemed to come from upstream.

i tried various apns, in cm12, cm13, and stock lollipop. rebuilt init_a5.cpp with different mccmnc and adjusted apns. i really tried most tricks in the book plus a few more.

as far as alpha testing goes, at this point I'm just sharing something cool... i always enjoyed flashing latest greatest on my ov way before i was building.

not too many actual logs to really bug report for either rom.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thoctor:
Some of that was over my head but happily not all of it. Basically what your saying is the fix needs to come from the carrier and it's a reset issue on their end not a custom rom issue? By the way I'm a big fan of your work. Hell I might be on one of your older ROMs right now I've flashed so many I forget. Thanks for the education.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techdude154:
The first time it happened, I flashed back to stock using the RUU.exe. I tried again but the second time I took out the SIM card before running the program, I still can't get LTE.

It does sound a lot like a carrier/account issue as I managed to kill 2 different 816s. I don't think it's the SIM card itself because I put it into a 3rd phone and got LTE, although since it was someone else's phone, I didn' t bother activating it.

I guess you got lucky with support, I tried talking to them and they tried the same thing with me. Although all I got was excuses saying they're logging a ticket with their "network engineers" and to call back in a few days. This continued on for a few weeks until they determined I needed a new phone, which I was also bounced around for another few weeks (I still don't have it).

I'm just completely lost now. I'm almost certain it's my account and it needs to be reset, but I can't get a tech who can help me. How did you manage to get someone in tier 2?
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigsupersquid:
seemed that way.

i took radio logs before and after it worked, and worked only on 3g, and it looked to me like the sim card responded differently to the ril after things were running right again.

mine might've been a special case, though, it came from ebay with no sim, and virgin had to go to a little effort to get it programmed when i installed the sim initially.

they also claimed for several days that the local Sprint tower was down for lte service.

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tier 2 takes luck, time, many calls, and eventually you learn the answers to all the questions tier 1 outsourced from India asks so you can feed it to them so fast they want to shuffle you along. takes a couple of weeks to over a month to get to tier 2 and sometimes they have to be involved multiple times as well.

I've been dealing with virgin since 2009... replaced only two phones, eventually got the rest of the issues hammered out with persistence.

for a little while, twice, i had direct toll free numbers to American tier two even because my issues were so hard to solve. it didn't take too long for those numbers to be disconnected, though.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kratos74:
Hey ,i have a problem with my apn settings,I edit my apn settings but the data will not switch on ,my phone huawei p20 on airtel nigeria,whenever I edit it the data will stops working,pls help
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] terrypearson:
My wife got her 5x before I got mine. One of the things I noticed right away is that when video calling via Google Hangouts, the audio had a lot of echo and distortion. Now that I have a 5x as well, it sounds downright awful when two 5x phones are in the same Google hangout.

The funny thing is that overall audio quality is pretty good. Even videos taken with the device sound great.

Has anybody else tried Google Hangouts and experienced something similar? I am just trying to troubleshoot what might be wrong here. Using two Galaxy SIII's over the same connection, the audio was great sounding. So it seems to point to the phone. Anybody else have similar issues or suggestions?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] rogconnect:
Yes ....sound terrible for me too..

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[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] squashpile:
Same here.. adjust the volume. Mic and speaker feeding back.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] squashpile:
This is pretty annoying. The mic is right next to the speaker on the bottom correct? Basically not usable without messing with it. I need to mess with it some more. Is the call volume the mic sensitivity or volume? It has a mic icon.

Just tried from 5x to ipod and it was better. Before I have only tried 5x to 5x. Strange it seems better when video is off and just audio call.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] piskr:
Hangouts uses audio codec Opus which is known as a modern low latency and high quality codec, which demands some CPU power, sometimes more than modest phones can sustain. Besides Hangouts video is one of the most bandwidth consuming - it takes 15M/min.

Google is probably the only one using exclusively its own servers for voice transmission, all others use peer-to-peer network. Fortunately Hangouts is right now into the process of switching to peer-to-peer network and it is a promising maneuver toward improvement of voice transmission.

Try to cancel video transmission and adjust microphone gain. When peer-to-peer transmission is in function, the voice improvement should be significant.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] squashpile:
My Nexus from 2011 has no issues, so I doubt it is CPU related. I did get a message about it switching to peer-to-peer too. I have adjusted every volume and it just really doesn't work well. The issue is feedback and I don't think the transmission protocol or CPU has anything to do with that. Thanks for the info though.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] squashpile:
Well I found a workaround. If you change the speaker used during the video call it will work. One person has to use the headset speaker. If both are using speaker it is horrible. It works fine, but the volume is way lower so not the best solution.

Left icon

http://imgur.com/ymIVo7q
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] mic4h:
This is NOT acoustic feedback. It happens even when both parties are using earbuds. If the other party is using a 5X, you hear the echo. If you are using a 5X, the other party hears the echo. For some reason the 5X sends received audio back to the sender. I have no idea why. It's very frustrating to not be able to use the exact app I switched back to android for.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] Silence66:
same here. tried several phones (iphone 5s, nexus 4, htc one) and tables (nexus 7, etc). got no problems with all other devices, just when the 5x is in the loop others will hear an echo
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] flexto:
Same here, this is so annoying, I can't make a call or video call with the speaker ON (skype, line, whatsapp) or the others hear themselves too loud.

I can use a headset but that's not convenient!

This wasn't mentioned in any of the review, Call or video call is one of the main reason why we buy a phone!

Is there anyone who doesn't have this problem.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
Tested it on EMUI, same problem.

I didn't test it with a custom ROM yet
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sur.:
I have the Echo even if the video is turned off.

I checked id on three deffferent devices.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] zinko_pt:
What about normal call using earspeaker or handsfree?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] adriansticoid:
Maybe it's a Hangouts problem?
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] zinko_pt:
Try to used an old version of hangouts as also. Get it at apkmirror.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sur.:
It's the same, terrible echo.:(
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] zinko_pt:
Have you contacted Huawei support line?

That's a terrible bug or hw malfunction and it needs to addressed right away.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] sur.:
I think it isn't Huawei issue, the same hapens on other devices (OnePlus One, Elephone P9000, Samsung tab, Samsung S3)

So I do not know where to look for issue
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] adriansticoid:
I told you it's a generic Hangouts problem.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] zinko_pt:
I don't have that in any phone.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] adriansticoid:
I think it has something to do with device architechture.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] zinko_pt:
Have several phones and also my friends and never heard of that.

Could be geographically dependent.
[Honor 5X Questions & Answers] HonorUSA_Eric:
Sound

We're terribly sorry to hear that you're having issues with your audio when you're in Google Hangouts. Unfortunately, we can't speak on third-party apps. Since your audio quality is good when you're taking videos, it is a possibility that it's the app. We advise contacting Google's customer service team for further assistance. (ED)